"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough."
-Albert Einstein
I think it's just human nature to have to complicate things. But when you're in the clinic, that is no time to be an academic or philosopher.
I've always harped on clinical results. Working in the clinic is working in the trenches so to speak. This is where the rubber meets the road. Any flowery ideas of acupuncture or Chinese medicine, all the lovely beautiful concepts and theories, they mean nothing. Results are the only thing that matters - and the treatments behind them. While many think this disparages the "art", what it actually is, is putting the patient first. I will never apologize for putting the patient above ideology that doesn't deliver results, and only serves to comfort one's ego.
I've seen so many peeps brag about what they can do. What they know, how they can "control qi", or the degrees they have. Something is always missing in this bragging though - the patient.
Learning is fun, philosophy is extremely interesting, exploring new idea is important. But in the clinic it's all about keeping it simple.
Likewise, how are you explaining things to your patients? Are you lecturing on the differences between acupuncture and dry needling? Are you over explaining how your treatments are helping them? Have you noticed they glaze over after about 30 seconds?
It's best to keep working on your scripts and saying things very direct. Give the patients what they need - results. We excel in the clinic, delivering the tools we've learned. If we're talking, we're not working (unless you can do both at the same time).
And please, keep it simple!
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i had a patient come in for some pulling under the foot. it wasnt heel tension but pain that i assumed coming from the flexor digitorum brevis area because i could feel pressure there under my fingers.
B/ hamstring tension with more tension on the L/ side was also found with SLR close to 90 on both sides. The tension in Flexor digitorum brevis was also more on the L/ side.
I just did sural nerve release for a few minutes and the hamstrings released to above 90 degrees and the tension in the flexor digitorum brevis released as well.
I have been using the sural nerve release in all hamstring tension cases and it works great.
I am pretty sure I am manipulating some other nerve pathway leading down to the area of FDBrevis
Question: Why would the flexor digitorum brevis release from above? What pathway leads to this? I still have much confusion on pathways leading to the bottom of the foot. Is there a reference material you recommend for learning pathways to the foot?
